Reporter Oliver Steeds is in Alice Springs, home to more Aborigines than anywhere else in Australia. He finds a community in the grip of an alcoholism epidemic, to the extent that the government has taken control of settlements and banned outright the sale of alcohol to Aborigines. Though money is being pumped into the communities, there is chronic unemployment and criticism that the indigenous population is now dependent on handouts, while local businesses are angry about the rise in crime. Perhaps more pertinent is the charge that Aborigines are losing their identity and sense of purpose and need to take back control of their communities. Martin Skegg

Slight deviation by the apparently inexhaustible MasterChef franchise. Michel Roux Jr revisits some of his preferred dishes from the series, and trots out a few of his own favourite recipes. Unsurprisingly, Roux focuses on French classics, including a stuffed duck with pistachios and some startlingly elaborate cream buns. As ever, for some viewers an instructive and inspiring lesson, for many more a culinary equivalent of pornography. Andrew Mueller

In this special festive edition, Monty Don and Rachel de Thame spruce up Longmeadow by cutting back plants and moving a holly tree that has become too big. Meanwhile, Carol Klein discovers some of Britain's best winter walks, ideal for when you're gasping for fresh air on a stuffed, claustrophobic Christmas Day afternoon, and Joe Swift visits an urban vineyard in Hackney. Pam Ayres also puts in an appearance. David Stubbs

The woolly America season catches on to a decent thread with this documentary about the pre-eminent hip-hop group of the 1980s. Older, more educated and more principled than the moral majority had come to expect their musical nemeses to be, the Long Island group came together at university, and quickly blazed their own trail with their abrasive, funky productions and the fervour of their rhymes. The heroic, epic personalities on display here – Chuck D, Flavor Flav, DJ Terminator X – makes this less a talking head procedural, more a rap Walk The Line. John Robinson

Hip-Hop At The BBC10pm, BBC4

If you can tolerate the Beeb's annoying habit of dropping the odd snide comment into its captions, there's plenty to enjoy here. Hip-hop has been around for more than 30 years and there is a good spread of archive live performances that show how many different approaches can work. It's also great to see how everyone involved in hip-hop reinvented themselves with far more exotic-sounding alter egos: it just wouldn't be the same listening to Shawn Carter (Jay-Z), Dylan Mills (Dizzee Rascal) or James Todd Smith (LL Cool J). Hip-hop won't stop. Phelim O'Neill

30 Rock10.30pm, Comedy Central

Liz, whose undercooked feminism is perhaps the most consistent source of 30 Rock's biggest laughs, is horrified when a well-known snark blog declares that TGS "hates women". Her response is to hire an edgy new female comic who, in reality, turns out to be a bit of a floozy. Usually such shenanigans would pique the interest of Jack, but he has more pressing matters to attend to, such as manipulating the teenage heir (Chloe Moretz) to the Kabletown Empire into giving up the company. Gwilym Mumford